Example sentences of "be telling [pers pn] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'm telling you for the last time , Harvey . |
| 2 | ‘ I 'm telling you for the last time , Liz , get up and let's go home . |
| 3 | And so you were telling me about the twenty six strike . |
| 4 | You were telling me about the common lodging houses . |
| 5 | THE Rev. Martin Smyth , MP , has been telling me of a neat little trick pulled by local people to have houses built at Innes Place on the Donegall Road . |
| 6 | ‘ You have just been telling me about the steamy heat of New York in summer — and now you 're moaning about the cold weather here in London ! ’ |
| 7 | MODEL Sophia Berggren has been telling me about the unusual special effects used for her current Clairol hair colouring advertisement . |
| 8 | In doing so , he had to jettison most of what those close to him had been telling him for the past 16 months . |
| 9 | He 's been telling them at the public house that you 'll help his noble family become great again . |
| 10 | I have been telling them about the different sensitivity which Asian women have to their babies and the fact that you ca n't just go up to an Asian woman with the diet leaflet and say you should be giving your baby Cod Liver Oil , because 90 per cent of Asians in Wandsworth are vegetarians . |
| 11 | Only ten minutes before , the current owner of the Rose Bowl , the rather oppressively genteel Miss Philimore , had been telling her about the wealthy local businessman who was one of the Rose Bowl 's best customers … |
| 12 | Peter Verkhovensky is telling him about a religious conversation among some army officers . |
| 13 | He is telling us about the new initiatives |
| 14 | ‘ He was telling me about the Russian visit . ’ |
| 15 | I asked the doctor about Dara Shukoh and Aurangzeb , and soon the doctor was telling us about the civil war and the accounts given of it by Bernier and Manucci . |
| 16 | In English , Miss J. was telling us about the Blessed Damozel . |
| 17 | But I was advised to imagine I was telling it to a good friend and not worry about what other people might think . |